§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the 18W non-ferrous minerals located in national parks in the United Kingdom, the reserves of ore bodies discovered to date in such areas and the percentage these represent in United Kingdom totals of each mineral.
§ Mr. CryerDeposits of a wide range of non-ferrous minerals falling within my Department's responsibilities are located in national parks. Those with reserves in the accepted sense of deposits workable under current economic conditions are: barytes, chemical limestone, china clay, fluorspar, industrial sand, lead, potash and tungsten. Sufficient information about mineral reserves to enable those in national parks to be expressed as a percentage of United Kingdom totals is not available.